Contact methods & services

Meetup
— Free contact service to help like-minded people meet
physically in their local areas, as multiple local groups on the
same topic at the same local time all over the world.

Yahoo
Groups — If you join a group and get calendar
privileges, you can have the function send reminders to group
members of upcoming events.

Evite
— Free online service to send invitations for events to email
lists, and process responses so you can plan for attendance.

Google
Groups — Read and post to Usenet newsgroups. Find
like-minded people. Searchable archive of newsgroup postings
back to 1995. In case you want to get everything someone posted
on every newsgroup, you can find it here. They bought out
dejanews.

Idealist.org
— Free contact services and other resources for activists and
nonprofit organizations of all kinds.

Anniversaries

April 13 — Thomas Jefferson Birthday. Author of the
Declaration of Independence. Leader of the "Revolution of 1800".

April 19 — Patriots (Militia) Day. Battle of Lexington
and Concord.

July 4 — Independence Day. Signing of the Declaration
of Independence.

September 5 — Jury Rights Day. Anniversary of date when
a jury, led by Bushell, acquitted William Penn, in 1670.

September 17 — Constitution Day. Completion of the
drafting of the Constitution in 1787.

December 15 — Bill of Rights Day. Effective date for
the first ten amendments to the Constitution in 1791.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate
inversion: the stage where the government is free to do
anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by
permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of
human history, the stage of rule by brute force. — Ayn Rand

Citizens for Legal Reform
— Meets in Dallas, Texas, but worth spreading to other cities
across the country and world. Included is essay, "The Essence of
Government", by Alfred Adask. No longer meeting but needs to be
restarted and replicated everywhere.

But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean
the American war? The Revolution was affected before the war
commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the
people.... This radical change in the principles, opinions,
sentiments, and affections was the real American Revolution
— John Adams